*Originally written and published in 2004 on multiple sites. Join me as I travel back to 1988 to look at Jean-Claude Van Damme's cinematic masterpiece: BLOODSPORT! Academy Award nominee in the category of throwin' wheel kicks in slow motion, baby! It's Frank Dux's real-life story of competing in the Kumite! The only tournament, where after surviving death and grievous injury, one man earns a sword and a plane ticket back to obscurity! MOVIE: BLOODSPORT. YEAR: 1988. STARRING: